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Trouble making. Problem solving. Doing my best to help. Climate change / community energy / solar railways / aviation / car free cities / innovation. he/him
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climate actionwww.wearepossible.org
solar railwayswww.ridingsunbeams.org
frequent flyer levywww.afreeride.org
There is no fucking snow in Anchorage, Alaska right now.
I will repeat that
There is no fucking snow in Anchorage Alaska right now. It’s goddamn January! Last year we had like 3 feet of snow at this point. All the snow we would’ve gotten has turned into rain. It’s freaking us all out, man.
#alaska #weather

*IF* you want a flight ban that's MEANINGFUL, do this

- 4 hours by train, not 2.5 hours

- apply to ALL flights, inc. transfers and private jets

- turn connecting flights into connecting trains with guaranteed passenger rights in case of delay

Anything LESS than that and it's gesture politics

With the €150m Wissing is contemplating giving to a flying taxi startup, the German state could purchase 60-70 night train carriages - enough for 2 night train routes. Put these in a state owned leasing pool, and lease them to operators

Better for people, better for the environment, than a sodding flying taxi

“The number of families in temporary accommodation is at record highs. Since last November you could fill the Albert Hall 14 times with the number of children living in temporary accommodation” https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-open-city-podcast/id1527736968?i=1000619477734
‎Open City: Thames Water sinking under more than £14 billion pounds of debt on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Open City, Ep Thames Water sinking under more than £14 billion pounds of debt - 5 Jul 2023

Apple Podcasts
“If a few decades ago, some people might have thought climate change was a relatively slow-moving phenomenon, we are now witnessing our climate changing at a terrifying rate,” said Prof Peter Stott, who leads the UK Met Office’s climate monitoring and attribution team.

“People are starving.
The rich gobble taxes,
that’s why people are starving.

People rebel.
The rich oppress them,
that’s why people rebel.

People hold life cheap.
The rich make it too costly,
that’s why people hold it cheap.

But those who don’t live for the sake of living
are worth more than the wealth-seekers.”

Excerpt From: Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, English translation by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Elon Musk as pioneer of degrowth

Every public institution posting warnings or threats on Twitter is now incapable of warning anyone without a Twitter account or anyone with a Twitter account that read more than 600 posts / day.

The need for independent social media / social media owned by you, aka the Fediverse, becomes more blatantly obvious by the day.

As Elon Musk is ravaging against projects like Nitter, or other alternative frontends, which barely scrapes together the few cents needed to keep Twitter afloat monetarily after his changes - making the platform more unusable by the second - we are building the alternative the world needs with #MastodonDE. It ain’t perfect, but it’s sure as hell close to it.

Uden AI Network

But Public Transport should make a profit 🤡🤡
I like how Twitter is now The Producers in that its owner is actively trying to sabotage it and also there are Nazis